I purchased mine from Ebay UK, there are two sellers one based in Korea while the other one is based in Hong Kong. If you do decide to buy one from ebay, don't buy from Korea because they ship by EMS and you will end up paying £25 for customs like I did.

I made myself deal with nothing but a Sansa set at the EU volume limit for a week. That was with ful size 32 ohm closed cans. I'd say that most of the time it was fine. I didn't know or care that it was volume limited.

But every once in a while I like to crank it up and just let it thump. Not much, just an occasional tune or 2 that call for it. There's some Taiko favorites in my collection that I've heard live. If I can't hear the big drum speak fully I'd prefer not to listen. That's when the limits bothered me.

I've listened to music pretty loud my whole life. I like punk rock mostly so it kinda has to be loud. I work in the aviation industry and get regular ear tests and still have very good hearing, so I know there's nothing wrong with my hearing and I know it isn't progressively worsening. I think the volume of one's music comes down to personal taste; I also like a lot of salt on my food which I think is analogous. Kind of

The volume of the S755 is too low with the cap. On my old S639F I'd have it turned up to around 22 or 23 with a pair of Creative EP630's and that was perfect. I'd consider splashing out on a £60 to £100 pair of buds if I thought they'd make a big difference but I'd rather spend that extra money getting a Walkman that wasn't hobbled in the volume department.

It looks like I might well hold off getting a Sony and have a look for something else. That's really sad and I mean that as a consumer who has previously been really impressed with Sony's products.

The S755 is a great little device but if the music coming out of it -it's purpose for existing- isn't up to scratch then I might as well have an iPod (looks great sounds rubbish).

I Replaced my S639F due to battery problems with an S755 and I must agree with Kuber.
The volume range of the S755 is way to low. From my pov general sound-dynamic is affected as well.

For example when using my Sennheiser PX200II with the S639F at level 17, EQ set to none, sound is clear and crispy. Using the S755 volume needs to be cranked up at least to 22-24 and sound is muffled, lacking treble.

S755 Sound gets considerably better when using a Beyerdynamic DTX101iE.
But who is willing to pay some additional £69.99 on top of what you already payed for your S755?!
And if using the Beyer with the S639F........ 8)))

Nevertheless, today I received a copy of the S755 Service-Manual and after a short overview I dare to say that we're screwed!
Someone finding the right button combination in test-mode is out of the question, because there is none.

Furthermore there is a section describing what to do after replacing the mother-board.

"Set destination code according to region, installing it into the EMMC board using the destination setting tool.
To obtain destination setting tool, contact service headquarters" 8/

Destination setting tool contains the various destination settings and is executed from a dos-window. So no fancy gui here.
Last step is to check in test-mode if the right destination was updated.
So basically volume-cap is just controlled by using what ever specified destination parameter

So if this tool is not becoming available anytime…we're screwed! Again!

I'll check the manual more thoroughly tomorrow. But I have little hope

The next problem will be what to buy next, there are virtually no players left with hardware-key-controls, who could compete or even be superior to my S639F. (or Iriver H120 with CF-Card )